Mitch Albom Tuesdays With Morrie Quotes & Sayings

How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day. — Morrie Schwartz.

Detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it. — Mitch Albom

Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale with memorable characters and filled it with the abundant warmth and wisdom that we've come to expect from this gifted storyteller. — John Burnham Schwartz

Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now ... — Henry Miller

Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another — Morrie Schwartz.

We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said. Love is the only rational act. — Morrie Schwartz.

In response to [the Philistine] threat [in the ninth century B.C.], the Hebrews could no longer rely on the leadership of 'judges,' ad hoc military leaders (some of them, peculiarly, women; perhaps reflecting as feminists claim, and earlier matriarchal society). — Norman F. Cantor

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society — Nelson Mandela

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you? — Isaac Asimov

God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive. — John Milton

So, Ariadne was the babe with the ball of twine and the plan. — Claire Cross

As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever. — Os Guinness

I always want to try new things, and 'Mean Machine' has given me that chance. I have got plans to carry on acting and would love to play all sorts of roles - you'll see that there's more strings to my bow! — Vinnie Jones

The tension of opposites:
Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.
A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle. — Morrie Schwartz.

She has had a couple of lovers before, but honest to God, no one has ever felt as good, as perfect a fit, as him. — Sarah Rayner

Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? — Mitch Albom

Tears are okay

[Morrie Schwartz] — Mitch Albom

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it ... So we kid ourselves about death ... But there's a better approach. To know you're going to dies, and to be prepared for it at any time ... Do what the Buddhists do ... ask, Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be? — Mitch Albom

We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives. — Morrie Schwartz.

We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be? — Mitch Albom